Would you have supported Israel's creation in 1948?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

How many times has this question been asked here now? It's a pity that questions about the Middle East always had back to reductionism and presentist interpretations of the past.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Think you're all missing the point. There was already a large Jewish presence in Palestine by this point (of course) and after the war it became a magnet for Jewish refugees. There was - by this point - no question of a Jewish state being established anywhere else.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Or, perhaps, the founders of your own country. Yes, someone had to bring that up at some point...

If it seems like a cheap point, it isn't. Or at least, isn't supposed to be. Most countries have dodgy foundational issues.

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Of course, we shouldn't forget that mass population movements of a less than entirely voluntary nature was pretty common in the creation of European nation states from 1918 onwards. This isn't to excuse what happened in 1948, but to point out that we cannot isolate it for moral condemnation.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Once again, basic chronology people. Please.